“Evolution of Swimsuit” by Jessica Rey is a video that shows
how the bathing suit has changed over the years. Rey expresses how she thinks
over time people have lost their natural modesty thanks to society. She states
that now people do not think of modesty as attractive. Rey wants people to know
that you can still be attractive and be modest about it. In her article she
shows how people react to a girl in a whole piece and how they react to a
person in a bikini.
When I first
heard the speech I was convinced that yes the bathing suit has gotten smaller
and that thanks to society we have lost our modesty. I was convinced that in
the early years of the bathing suit were more modest. I thought that she proved
her point when she explained that she had asked young teen girls and their idea
of modesty was dressing like a grandmother. To me she did a good job with
backing up her reasoning when she showed the history of the bathing suit also.
Once we
started talking about it in class I noticed some of the flaws in her speech. To
me her biggest flaw with the speech was that she mentioned her bathing suit
line. I felt like her mentioning her it towards the end of the speech made it
weak because it seemed like she brought up all that information so she can convince
people to by her product at the end. If she would have just showed some
swimsuits that were one piece that were not hers and that looked good it would
have made her speech stronger.
